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Red Rock Green River HO scale (1:87.1) Room size: 10'-0"x20'-0" Scale of plan: 3⁄4" = 1'-0", 24" grid Numbered arrows indicate photo locations Illustration by Rick Johnson and Jay Smith Find more plans online in the ModelRailroader.com Track Plan Database. Canyon 5 69.5" Stamp mill Stock pens 4 1 Green River 3 64" Station Water tank 6 Green River Coal tower 2 Depot Red Rock 64" Red Clay Red Rock Green River motors wired to Hare accessory decoders from DCC Specialties. Two types of foam I wanted to try something new with scenery, rather than the hardshell technique that I’d used in the past. So I used a combination of 4" thick extruded-foam insulation board, white expanded-bead board, and real rocks. After stacking the foam in layers, I shaped it using a hot knife. In some locations, I covered the foam with plaster rock castings. I used both types of foam board be- cause they have different working characteristics. The extruded-foam board (mine is blue) is more rigid and dense, and thus allows finer detail. However, I can easily shape the expanded-bead foam (usually white) to resemble granite. I coated the foam with a golden color flat latex interior house paint. Once the paint had dried, I used washes of Woodland Scenics liquid pigments to bring out the details. With the addition of real rocks, bushes, and clutter, I get a pretty good representation of Colorado scenery. I modeled the water with Enviro-Tex two-part epoxy, topped with gloss medium to simulate waves. My son Bret, who was an illustrator for Hallmark Cards in Kansas City, hand-painted my backdrop on the train room’s walls. I figured he owed me for four years of college. Since his backdroppainting days, he moved on to bigger things and now works for Disney. (Of course he would get my dream job!) I scratchbuilt several of the buildings and bridges on the layout, including the coaling tower, sand house, water tower, enginehouse, car barn, sheds, and steel trestles. The rest are a combination of kitbashed and kit-built products, with the exception of the wooden trestle and the stamp mill. Jim Ellis built those two for me. One of these days, I’ll help Jim get going on his own layout, but in the meantime I keep him busy on mine. Built-in effects The fluorescent and incandescent lights in the train room are wired independently, letting me work on the layout ▸▸ The layout at a glance Name: Red Rock Green River Scale: On21 ⁄2 (1:48, 30" gauge) Size: 10 x 20 feet Theme: Freelanced Denver & Rio Grande Western and Rio Grande Southern Locale: New Mexico and Colorado Era: 1940s Style: walk-in Mainline run: 80 feet Minimum radius: 28" Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 0.95 percent Benchwork: open grid Height: 64" to 691 ⁄2 " Roadbed: Homasote Track: Micro Engineering code 83 flextrack Scenery: foam board with real rock and some rock castings Backdrop: painted on walls Control: Lenz Digital Command Control APRIL 2011 • Model Railroader 63 To staging